Science, Geology and Physics 



Account of the geological history of the great lake region and the 1834 

 Niagara with the bearing of this history on the scriptural " Mosaic Deluge." Fairholme 

 The author firmly believed in the fact of a universal deluge about the 

 period denoted by scripture chronology, and believes the formation of 

 Niagara to have been begun " immediately subsequent to the restoration 

 of order after the Mosaic Deluge." 



CoMSTOCK, John Lee. Outlines of geology. Hartford: D. F. 1834 

 Robinson. 1834. Pp. 30-36. Comstock 



Controverts Lyell's estimate of the age of the Falls. 



LlEBER, FRANCIS, ed. Letters to a gentleman in Germany, written 1834 

 after a trip from Philadelphia to Niagara. Phila. : Carey, Lea and er 

 Blanchard. 1834. Pp. 333-356. 



This work was reissued in 1835 under the title: "The stranger in 

 America; or, Letters to a gentleman in Germany. . . . By Francis 

 Lieber." 



I cannot be counted among those who — some in 

 reality, some apparently — are affected in the presence of the 

 noble aspect of Niagara, more deeply with the sensation of the 

 power of God, than they ever were in their lives before. . . . 

 The firmament, the sea, from a mountain near the shore, the 

 lofty Alps, when they appear for the first time to the lonely 

 wanderer with the rosy evening glow on their hoary summits, 

 like Raphael's Jove with his gray locks, yet cheeks glowing with 

 immortal vigor, have a more expansive power upon my mind 

 than the great falls. 



You have read nearly all the late accounts of Niagara, and 

 I shall not detain you by a fresh attempt at description. I 

 merely intend to give you some items in relation to this magnifi- 

 cent spectacle. 



The vast inland seas west of the Niagara, send from out the 

 mighty basins their waters toward the Falls, and all their never- 

 ceasing volumes tend to this point, which forms the greatest 

 beauty of that chain of lakes whose vast sheets vie with the sea, 



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